What if you install a virtual machine once, and then copy it over to the other machines?
Also, if everything else fails (my apologies for saying this but somehow you don't give out a vibe that you are on top of the situation) is it the question for people to be able to use laptops, but not being able to mess around on them? Then I guess your final -and easy- option is to just open accounts for them in the existing OSes, and tell them to act civilized. Is that an option?
they divert less internal biological resources like protein and fat to fighting infections, and bulk up instead
It is not even that complicated: many farmers just pump them with antibiotics preemptively (so they don't get sick, especially with milk-yielding cows)
A biochemist ladyfriend of mine tells me that TFA is not any breaking news: bacteria hopping on other environments and making a comeback as a more resistant strain is something that happens all the time, and there are numerous publication about it. Furthermore, hospitals are known to have their own unique strains thriving around so there is a possibility, however small, that one actually can contract something from a hospital.
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You can remove all Web History from your Google Account at any time. While signed in to your Google Account:
Go to google.com/history.new window
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However, as is common practice in the industry, and as outlined in the Google Privacy Policy, Google maintains a separate logs system for auditing purposes and to help us improve the quality of our services for users.
Sorry to set the bar high (or to remind that it's not high enough) but am I the only one that sees this as a reminder of what more could had been done during those 50 years?
Orbit the Earth, then walk on the moon, then take cars on the moon with you, then play golf on the moon, then -for some reason- abstain from going anywhere higher than low Earth orbit indefinetely?
Sure, there has been a great deal of progress in automation and exploration, but in terms of human presense in space the situation seems a bit pathetic.
There was a flash comic some years ago about a sentient zombie called "Xombie", and its owner removed it from newgrounds because apparatnly it was too good and some DVDs were announced to "be coming".
This is for alll of you Apple haters out there that cry "double standards" and to prove that, once and for all, Apple gets the same slap on the wrist as everybody else.
Do not forget their sworn enemies functioning from within, the Mole Fraction: a fraction of moles that are trying to work their way up the hierarchy, the ratio of the number of moles in one of the Orders of Magnitute to the total number of moles in all Orders of Magnitude has been believed to be constant among all Orders of Magnitude, even though there is much speculation on that; it perhaps reflects the fact that noone really can predict which one of the Orders will prevail so the moles are trying to keep their bases covered. Truth is, the Mole Fraction has been infiltrating the Orders of Magnitude from as far back as the 1300's, where apparently all the spoils of war have been forcing scholars of the time to be able to perform better and more accurate measurements, in order for The Order to spoil itsself in an appropriate "Lion's Share" fashion, and for less spoily spoils to precipitate down the pecking order in an orderly fashion. But what do I know.
It seems that typically it is less than half that much, energy lost in heat, rail deforming and whatnot. Nicely applied first principles on your post, though.
Can you imagine the sound this weapon makes [..] that alone would terrify the enemy.
a) if you terrify someone that makes you a terrorist, so careful how you handle your PR there, and
b) the projectile travels supersonically so, no, "the enemy" cannot be terrified by hearing it, because the projectile will get there before the sound it makes.
How ON EARTH did your comment get "+5 interesting" ?
.. will literally be caught with their pants down..
There is no "gotcha with your pants down" here: he/she used an online dating service, so what, what's wrong with that?
When you are going out to meet new people on a Friday night, are you not doing the same? You don't really care about the venue, you are interested into meeting someone: in that case, it is the bar/club/gas station lavatory that acts as a "host" for your endeavors, instad of an online meeting place.
As for the personal data, online dating, weird and beyond me as I may find it, works for many people and the giving up of personal info beyond picture (like a credit card number) is in place so there is some level of security involved, and you can be traced back if you misbehave: in that sense, it is a tradeoff.
Such information though should be safeguarded and once the goal is met and you have succesfully been introduced to your significant other, it should be imperative that when your profile is deleted, it really stays deleted.
You know what will fix this and bring jobs back to the USA? Accountability.
Those jobs are only coming back to the U.S.A. if you are prepared to pay $3000 for an iPad or an iPhone, because a U.S.A. based factory has too high a salary for its workers, and too high an expense of disposing toxic according to a protocol. Go where people will work for food, dump waste to a river near by, and suddenly production costs are reduced by a twenty-fold.
Economics is not about ethics, it is about numbers adding up or not.
Probably not, but I would say it depends on the details of how the study will be performed and interpreted: i.e. there can be a perpetual debate as to whether what we see actually 'is' cellular damage, or 15 more years are needed for verification --see the fudge factors on those never-ending ever-inconclusive cellphone tower 'studies' and the whole 'carbon neutral' and 'global warming' hype. And see how little consequence they have had (excluding "green" marketing) because all humans need to move around and ramble on cellphones.
Is it reasonable to expect an organization accused of jeopardizing the health and safety of hundreds of millions of air travelers to pick a truly unbiased lab?
I have NO IDEA (and probably nobody else does) why on Earth is it the TSA that will pick the lab. On what grounds? By what means? Unless we are looking for a "bureaucratic enough" approach. But seriously, it makes no sense other than someone choosing their own lawyer, and maybe that's the message this senator wants to deliver: "putting TSA on the stand".
Would any lab chosen deliver a critical report and risk future funding?
Depends what kind of lab it wants to be: the lab that does lab work, or the lab that is someone's bitch. Both kinds get funding at one point or another, albeit for different reasons.
Should the public trust a study of radiology and human health designed by a US Senator whose highest degree is a bachelor's degree in government?
That is a moot point: the public already 'trusts' heads of state that are bankers, department heads that are lawyers.. when was the last time you saw engineers and scientists in governing positions?
Sure, why not: I hope the opening happens during an evening of 2020, so I can watch it in my 3DTV right after I return from work with my fusion-powered flying car, all in good time before China invades the US.
Perhaps I 'm not the authority on planetary formation, but I got an idea or two about it- especially since I am apparently answering questions about it on a Friday evening. The 'law' (Titius-Bode) mentioned by AC below is for distances, not masses: but AFAIK there have been some attempts to make fits on all those new Kepler data, and it seems promising: knock yourself out here and here. Personally I wouldn't be very surprised to discover a power law distribution, as this is often the case.
I haven't heard anything on the Pascal triangle idea you are describing, though it sounds interesting; most mass "ending up" in the centre of the distribution, its concentration further accelerating accretion, but most minds in the field would argue that the formation of Jupiter was triggered by the presence of the so-called "iceline": that is the distance from the central (heating) object were there is not enough heat for water to remain in vapor, so it condences into ice. Then, the increased mass because of the enhanced ice abundance quickly accretes whatever is near even faster, forming a massive planet rather fast and depleting material around its neighborhood.
Though the iceline trigger theory sounds plausible, there are tens if not hundreds of other issues arising if you believe that story --perhaps a bit too technical to describe here. Nonentheless, it will be really interesting to see if there is indeed a powerlaw at play, and if there is a Jupiter-like planet to be expected to be orbiting (more-or-less) near a given star's iceline.
I'd consider the fourth option [..] The problem is that our technology is young, we are young
Fifth option, turning your fourth option around: life on Earth is from a 'first batch', of the first appearances of life in the Universe, and beings from Earth may very well end up being the "Ancient Visitors" for other planets some 100,000 years from now, after of course the token dark age of genetic experimentation, colonization and looting.
If the Universe is indeed ~14Gy old, and Earth is ~4.5Gy old (at around a third the Universe's age), with the astronomical distances and probabilities and all, maybe there are just not enough other guys around: sentience on this planet may just be the oldest one "within range"- so keep cool on exponential growth, catastrophic events and singularities, be ready to welcome others but also keep an edge over potential competition, in case it appears.
Slashdot Mirror
What if you install a virtual machine once, and then copy it over to the other machines?
Also, if everything else fails (my apologies for saying this but somehow you don't give out a vibe that you are on top of the situation) is it the question for people to be able to use laptops, but not being able to mess around on them? Then I guess your final -and easy- option is to just open accounts for them in the existing OSes, and tell them to act civilized. Is that an option?
they divert less internal biological resources like protein and fat to fighting infections, and bulk up instead
It is not even that complicated: many farmers just pump them with antibiotics preemptively (so they don't get sick, especially with milk-yielding cows)
A biochemist ladyfriend of mine tells me that TFA is not any breaking news: bacteria hopping on other environments and making a comeback as a more resistant strain is something that happens all the time, and there are numerous publication about it. Furthermore, hospitals are known to have their own unique strains thriving around so there is a possibility, however small, that one actually can contract something from a hospital.
Yes, you do:
From their website (http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=54067):
You can remove all Web History from your Google Account at any time. While signed in to your Google Account:
Go to google.com/history.new window
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However, as is common practice in the industry, and as outlined in the Google Privacy Policy, Google maintains a separate logs system for auditing purposes and to help us improve the quality of our services for users.
(emphasis mine)
the Ubuntu for Android system runs both OSes side by side
Nice trick. Anyone knows if this scheme respects battery life?
Sorry to set the bar high (or to remind that it's not high enough) but am I the only one that sees this as a reminder of what more could had been done during those 50 years?
Orbit the Earth, then walk on the moon, then take cars on the moon with you, then play golf on the moon, then -for some reason- abstain from going anywhere higher than low Earth orbit indefinetely?
Sure, there has been a great deal of progress in automation and exploration, but in terms of human presense in space the situation seems a bit pathetic.
There was a flash comic some years ago about a sentient zombie called "Xombie", and its owner removed it from newgrounds because apparatnly it was too good and some DVDs were announced to "be coming".
This is for alll of you Apple haters out there that cry "double standards" and to prove that, once and for all, Apple gets the same slap on the wrist as everybody else.
Of course I know what an order of magnitude is.
Do not forget their sworn enemies functioning from within, the Mole Fraction: a fraction of moles that are trying to work their way up the hierarchy, the ratio of the number of moles in one of the Orders of Magnitute to the total number of moles in all Orders of Magnitude has been believed to be constant among all Orders of Magnitude, even though there is much speculation on that; it perhaps reflects the fact that noone really can predict which one of the Orders will prevail so the moles are trying to keep their bases covered. Truth is, the Mole Fraction has been infiltrating the Orders of Magnitude from as far back as the 1300's, where apparently all the spoils of war have been forcing scholars of the time to be able to perform better and more accurate measurements, in order for The Order to spoil itsself in an appropriate "Lion's Share" fashion, and for less spoily spoils to precipitate down the pecking order in an orderly fashion. But what do I know.
a manual grinder and a french press
My grinder is electric, but no press here: just a cone with coffee paper and a boiler. That's it.
What does that even mean?
Indeed.
"Your IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" (note: not my IP)
"Your Browser: Unknown"
"Your OS: Unknown"
Time isn't infinite [..] time ends.
Seems that you have it all figured out. Well, not much point in having physicists around I guess.
Well, [..] (5000mph=2235m/s, [32e6]*2/[2235^2]=m=12.8)
It seems that typically it is less than half that much, energy lost in heat, rail deforming and whatnot. Nicely applied first principles on your post, though.
Can you imagine the sound this weapon makes [..] that alone would terrify the enemy.
a) if you terrify someone that makes you a terrorist, so careful how you handle your PR there, and
b) the projectile travels supersonically so, no, "the enemy" cannot be terrified by hearing it, because the projectile will get there before the sound it makes.
How ON EARTH did your comment get "+5 interesting" ?
.. will literally be caught with their pants down ..
There is no "gotcha with your pants down" here: he/she used an online dating service, so what, what's wrong with that?
When you are going out to meet new people on a Friday night, are you not doing the same? You don't really care about the venue, you are interested into meeting someone: in that case, it is the bar/club/gas station lavatory that acts as a "host" for your endeavors, instad of an online meeting place.
As for the personal data, online dating, weird and beyond me as I may find it, works for many people and the giving up of personal info beyond picture (like a credit card number) is in place so there is some level of security involved, and you can be traced back if you misbehave: in that sense, it is a tradeoff.
Such information though should be safeguarded and once the goal is met and you have succesfully been introduced to your significant other, it should be imperative that when your profile is deleted, it really stays deleted.
King of the Trolls; contours the flaws in the patent/legal/etc system pretty well though-
.. since they ALL seem to somehow ALWAYS loose their lightsabers.
You know what will fix this and bring jobs back to the USA? Accountability.
Those jobs are only coming back to the U.S.A. if you are prepared to pay $3000 for an iPad or an iPhone, because a U.S.A. based factory has too high a salary for its workers, and too high an expense of disposing toxic according to a protocol. Go where people will work for food, dump waste to a river near by, and suddenly production costs are reduced by a twenty-fold.
Economics is not about ethics, it is about numbers adding up or not.
Is this a credible experimental protocol?
Probably not, but I would say it depends on the details of how the study will be performed and interpreted: i.e. there can be a perpetual debate as to whether what we see actually 'is' cellular damage, or 15 more years are needed for verification --see the fudge factors on those never-ending ever-inconclusive cellphone tower 'studies' and the whole 'carbon neutral' and 'global warming' hype. And see how little consequence they have had (excluding "green" marketing) because all humans need to move around and ramble on cellphones.
Is it reasonable to expect an organization accused of jeopardizing the health and safety of hundreds of millions of air travelers to pick a truly unbiased lab?
I have NO IDEA (and probably nobody else does) why on Earth is it the TSA that will pick the lab. On what grounds? By what means? Unless we are looking for a "bureaucratic enough" approach. But seriously, it makes no sense other than someone choosing their own lawyer, and maybe that's the message this senator wants to deliver: "putting TSA on the stand".
Would any lab chosen deliver a critical report and risk future funding?
Depends what kind of lab it wants to be: the lab that does lab work, or the lab that is someone's bitch. Both kinds get funding at one point or another, albeit for different reasons.
Should the public trust a study of radiology and human health designed by a US Senator whose highest degree is a bachelor's degree in government?
That is a moot point: the public already 'trusts' heads of state that are bankers, department heads that are lawyers .. when was the last time you saw engineers and scientists in governing positions?
idea of building a lunar base by 2020
Sure, why not: I hope the opening happens during an evening of 2020, so I can watch it in my 3DTV right after I return from work with my fusion-powered flying car, all in good time before China invades the US.
how many parsecs of time it would take
Nice try. Everybody knows that time is measured in light years, DUH!
the history of the Titius-Bode Law
Perhaps I 'm not the authority on planetary formation, but I got an idea or two about it- especially since I am apparently answering questions about it on a Friday evening. The 'law' (Titius-Bode) mentioned by AC below is for distances, not masses: but AFAIK there have been some attempts to make fits on all those new Kepler data, and it seems promising: knock yourself out here and here. Personally I wouldn't be very surprised to discover a power law distribution, as this is often the case.
I haven't heard anything on the Pascal triangle idea you are describing, though it sounds interesting; most mass "ending up" in the centre of the distribution, its concentration further accelerating accretion, but most minds in the field would argue that the formation of Jupiter was triggered by the presence of the so-called "iceline": that is the distance from the central (heating) object were there is not enough heat for water to remain in vapor, so it condences into ice. Then, the increased mass because of the enhanced ice abundance quickly accretes whatever is near even faster, forming a massive planet rather fast and depleting material around its neighborhood.
Though the iceline trigger theory sounds plausible, there are tens if not hundreds of other issues arising if you believe that story --perhaps a bit too technical to describe here. Nonentheless, it will be really interesting to see if there is indeed a powerlaw at play, and if there is a Jupiter-like planet to be expected to be orbiting (more-or-less) near a given star's iceline.
.. we are the only one to develop technology. We are rare.
How about an air-conditioned dome with water conserving capabilities that also maintains fungal gardens harvested for food for millions of individuals?
Get over yourself: if all humans dissapeared in an instant, the rest of the planet would get along pretty well.
I'd consider the fourth option [..] The problem is that our technology is young, we are young
Fifth option, turning your fourth option around: life on Earth is from a 'first batch', of the first appearances of life in the Universe, and beings from Earth may very well end up being the "Ancient Visitors" for other planets some 100,000 years from now, after of course the token dark age of genetic experimentation, colonization and looting.
If the Universe is indeed ~14Gy old, and Earth is ~4.5Gy old (at around a third the Universe's age), with the astronomical distances and probabilities and all, maybe there are just not enough other guys around: sentience on this planet may just be the oldest one "within range"- so keep cool on exponential growth, catastrophic events and singularities, be ready to welcome others but also keep an edge over potential competition, in case it appears.